cam a22 4 4500 576428671 CHVBK 20200511050911.0 190614s2020 xxka b||| 001 0 eng| 2019025306 GBB9-I1943 bnb 019602467 Uk 978-1-138-31214-2 hbk 978-0-429-45841-5 ebk (OCoLC)1104913689 (IDSBB)007135733 (OCoLC)1104913689 DLC ger DLC OCLCF OCLCO UKMGB YDX FIE SzZuIDS BS/BE A125 rda JA76 .H675 2020 306.2 23 300 15 CC 6600 rvk MS 4450 rvk Horváth Ágnes 1957- (DE-588)1048099245 Verfasser aut The political sociology and anthropology of evil tricksterology Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020 xv, 208 Seiten Illustrationen Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Contemporary liminality 10 10 (IDSBB)006754608 502564350 Includes bibliographical references and index "This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the 'trickster'. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of simply opposing 'good' and 'evil', the figure of the trickster is used to pursue the trajectories of similarities and quasi-similarities through imitation. After engaging with the trickster as presented in comparative anthropology and mythology, where it appears in tales and legends as a strange, erratic outsider, the authors seek to gain an inside perspective of trickster knowledge through an examination of mythology and the classical world, including both philosophers and poets. The book then goes on to trace the trickster through prehistory, using archaeological evidence to complement the diverse narratives. In this way, and by investigating the knowledge and customs surrounding evil, the authors use the figure of the trickster to provide an unprecedented diagnosis of the contemporary world, where external, mechanical rationality has become taken for granted and even considered as foundational in politics, economics, and technologised science. The authors advance the idea that the modern world, with its global free markets, mass mediatic democracy and technologised science, represents a universalisation of trickster logic. 'The political sociology and anthropology of the evil' will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of social theory, political anthropology and political sociology, as well as those interested in the ways in which evil can infiltrate reality." Geschichte gnd Anthropologie (DE-588)4002230-4 gnd Das Böse (DE-588)4007524-2 gnd Politische Soziologie (DE-588)4046558-5 gnd Trickster (DE-588)4305613-1 gnd Political sociology fast Tricksters fast Political sociology Tricksters Szakolczai Árpád 1958- (DE-588)121304167 Verfasser aut Stoppsignal FRED 01.04.2020 nebis DS IDSBB 100 1- Horváth Ágnes 1957- (DE-588)1048099245 Verfasser aut IDSBB 490 0- Contemporary liminality 10 10 (IDSBB)006754608 502564350 IDSBB 700 1- Szakolczai Árpád 1958- (DE-588)121304167 Verfasser aut SWISSBIB 576428671 BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 IDSBB A125 A125 125F2 UBW_MS_4450 47 NELA1252004 IDSBB DSV51 DSV01 A100 http://www.ub.unibas.ch/tox/IDSBB/007135733/PDF pdf VIEW Inhaltsverzeichnis